I found this chunk of material yesterday in a field in my area,16x11x9 weighing in at a whopping 70 pounds! Does anyone see any signs of where pieces may have been removed to make tools?
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Are you near the quarry? Licking and Muskingum Counties?
I've never seen ancient people move such large hunks of ridge moved away from the quarry, it's usually so fractured that it's just easier to clean it up and carry quarry blanks or bifaces.
Hong Kong, but from Indiana/Florida
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Glacial till moved from the outcrop to the current spot? Certainly a great piece if you were a knapper or know one. I'd have brought it home and unsuccessfully smashed it into unusable pieces lol.
Another thing, from another of your posts careful digging in that creek you were referencing in another post Ohio frowns on that big time
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Is that the only raw flint you find there? It seems to be too large to have been manually transported, but it got there somehow. It makes me wonder if there's nearby buried source.
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